A Foulks Family Snapshot Album

A Foulks Family Snapshot Album


(Kodak's superb slide scanning system allowed Thom Foulks, Sr., to screen through more than a thousand 35mm slides from the '50s, '60s and '70s for this unique album of digital images that bring memories to all his family members. The screening produced 130 slides which are now permanently stored on Photo-CD disks as 2048x1024 pixel images. This sampling, obviously, has been edited to smaller, Web-oriented sizes.)
Thomas Eugene Foulks, Jr.

Fishing from the pier of a Wisconsin lake (with Mom in the background)...robe-climbing a cliff in Colorado's Park County, overlooking 11-Mile Reservoir...sipping coffee from a Ponderosa tree limb...rope-swinging with a Clark AB girl friend...and the hardcarved medieval-styled bed that he built just for the fun of it. (Editor's Note: Doesn't this guy ever slow down?)
Kathleen Marie Foulks [Downey]

Front teeth or not, her smile stays intact...even splashing in the watery mud of a Philippine Islands warm rainstorm...running an errand with her bike in Colorado Springs...swinging from a rope...and helping cousin Bonnie line up a shot in the onetime family pool room (now Thom, Sr.'s computer room).
Joseph Paul Foulks

Joe's red hair is, for sure, hereditary...as is, evidently, his liking for hot dogs. Zeb, his first dog, was a willing fishing companion...and Joe likes marshmallows, too (especially from a campfire)...but, gee, how long can that red hair get?
Dana Alan Foulks

His birthday may be July 5, but Dana swears Independence Day is celebrated on his behalf....and -- with a knowing grin --he will tell you so. That Philippines Island rainstorm had many willing participants. Uh-oh, where did that butch haircut go? ...and, "Dad, why are you shooting a picture of me in a tree?"
Schenhers

Kenny Schenher, ever-present pipe in hand (like Thom) was Thom's step-father. Red-haired Kathy and Thom's mother, Mary Lou Schenher, puzzle over a newspaper. LeAnna (Schenher) Hastin has a different shade of red hair (from Joe's, in background). Thom, Jr. once tried out the back seat of uncle Pat Schenher's "hawg"...as uncle Nick Schenher prepared to join the ride, in Toledo.
Mannings

Vi Foulks' father, Paul Manning, enjoyed family picnics...and so did mother Julia, especially when pinochle or eucre was the table game. Vi's older sister, Lois (Manning) Martin, shares the same birthday as Vi. Now a retired U.S. mailman, Marvin Martin, tends a duck-hunting club. And Colleen (Manning) Gerber gave up on the "frigid" Midwest for Lake Havasu City's endemic heatwave.
Thom, Sr.

By far the most over-photographed member of the Foulks family, Thom, Sr. is shown as an AFRTS newscaster...newspaper reporter...on-the-go TV cameraman...verbose public speaker...and chairman of the El Paso County, Colorado, Board of County Commissioners. Where's Vi? She kept saying, "Don't shoot my picture!"
On The Road

Weekends, in the Rockies, mean a lot of time in the mountains -- and for the Foulks' family's teenager-years, it was traveling roads like this aspen-lined Rampart Range Road...in our trusty (180,000 miles!) Rambler Classic...even to the top of Crystal Peak, for Joe and Dana to pose triumphantly atop the mountain. And then there were the motorhome days, many of them spent at the "corner" of Tarryall Reservoir...or our own "hidden" campground near Mt. Herman Road (where I trapped camera-shy Vi).
Foulks At Home

For 25 years or so, the Foulks family lived in a lot of places, like this mobile home in Mississippi (or was it Georgia?)...before settling permanently at our Alta Loma [high ground] home in Colorado Springs. There was also this Colorado Springs home, so small we had to take out a window to move a piano out of it (long story). But quite memorable was this relocatable home in the Philippine Islands...whose site was obliterated by the soot from an eruption of volcanic Mt. Pinatubo. (Yes, we'd long gone -- but the image is shot from only a couple hundred yards away from where we lived.)


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